Remote Contact - The Nuer of Southern Sudan.The Nuer, a Nilotic people, live in one of the most remote and untouched places in the world,...Stone, Wendy
aAmong the Nuer, a people living in Southern Sudan, the payment made to the bride's kin, known as bridewealth, is in the form of cattle.Once the amoount of bridewealth is agreed upon , and the formal payment is made, the marriage becomes a legal union and the offspring of the ...
The Nuer 1. The Nuer a. Famous in anthropology long before Hutchinson’s book i. The Nuer were pacified by the British colonial forces 1. After their pacification anthropologists could study them 2. Much of early anthropology was caught up in colonialism b. Studied by many, but there can’...
53. The entire reason for the Abyei Referendum was to permit the Ngok Dinka – who had consistently contended over the past decades that their tribe belonged to southern Sudan – to vote on whether or not to be included in the South. In these circumstances, it would make no sense to ...
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Digital health interventions (DHIs) are increasingly used to address the health of migrants and ethnic minorities, some of whom have reduced access to health services and worse health outcomes than majority populations. This study aims to give an overvie
” Fluidity in a living society is commonly found in oral genealogies. It indicates the grafting of a segment from another clan or tribe. This might be due to intermarriage, i.e., a “connubium”, sometimes recognized as giving equal status to a distaff member of the family. Alternately,...
Among the Nuer, a 11 living in Southern Sudan, the payment made to the bride's kin, 12 as bridewealth, is in the 13 of cattle.Once the 14 of bridewealth is agreed 15 , and the formal payment is made, the marriage becomes a 16 union and the offspring of t...
Chapter 1 Re-examining the “Sources of the Sudanese Revolution”: Discussing the Social History of Sudan after the December 2018 Revolution was published in Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019 on page 37.
The Nilotic Meroitic state, in what is now the Sudan, existed from the late fourth century BC until the mid fourth century AD. It has come to be regarded i